Can You Treating Your Own Chronic Back Pain?

There are many at home treatments for back pain. They all involve simple exercises that you can do to stretch the muscles and spine. Some of these programs work for some people and not for others.

Some say inversion is the cure, others say it doesn’t work at all. I say if done correctly it is an invaluable tool in the back pain tool box.

Others suggest that only the medical profession should address back pain. Of course, it is usually those in the medical profession who are making that suggestion. It’s kinda like Walmart suggesting that you visit your local Walmart store.

Somewhere in the midst of all of this sometimes conflicting information is the truth about treating your own chronic back pain. Thankfully, it is simple to sort through the mess and come up with a workable solution.

You should first understand your goal when addressing your back pain. It is not to stop the pain. You should focus all of your attention on keeping your spine in the correct position by maintaining your lumbar lordosis. That is the inward cure of your lower spine.

Most back pain is caused by keeping your back in stressful positions for a long time. The stress is cause by the loss of the lumbar curve. If you maintain the curve, you reduce the stress and the pain.

In fact, the goal of good posture is not to sit or stand straight up. It is to sit and stand while maintaining the natural curve of your back.

Another problem most at home treatments modalities to treat back pain have is that they overdo the stretches or stray from the needed straight line stretches. Sometimes they advise the wrong kind of stretch and can prevent you from healing.

All that is needed is a simple extension exercise to make tiny steps forward. A properly done extension exercise is a self administered chiropractic treatment. Do them regularly and allow for proper rest and you will end up pain free before it is all over.

Add a little mild inversion when the sharp pains are gone and you can get pain free a lot faster than you ever thought.

The main reason people fail in curing their back pain is that they over do it. If a little exercise is good, a lot must be better. But that is TOTALLY wrong.